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Onomatopoeia refers the words in languages that represent sounds as they are heard by the speakers of those languages. They are the noise words you see in comics, such as pow or bang bang . These charts show equivalent sound words in Mirad. Often, they are reduplicated, hyphenated expressions like pop-pop . Any onomatopoetic word can be made into an action verb by suffixing some form of -der , if a human or animal vocalization, or -xer if it is a noise made by an object. Some example:
plop-plopxer ....to go plop, to go splat
Language
Biting
Eating food
Drinking
Swallowing
English
chomp, crunch
yum yum
slurp
gulp
Mirad
nyam-nyam, krac-krac
yum-yum
slup-slup
glu-glu
Language
Heart-beating
Belching
Vomiting
Coughing
Flatulence
Sneezing
Snoring
Yawning
English
thump thump
burp
barf
cough cough
toot, fart
achoo
zzzz
ho-hum, yawn
Mirad
tump-tump
brup-brup
blug-blug
kah-kah
hwuf-hwuf
acuh-acuh
zii-zuu
yaa-yaa
Language
Baby crying
Scream
Shriek
English
wah wah
ow, ouch, yeow,
eek
Mirad
waa-waa
awc-awc
iik-iik
Language
Laughter
Kiss
English
ha ha
mwa
Mirad
hihi
mwa-mwa
Language
Hushing
Pausing or thinking
English
shh, shush
uh, um, er
Mirad
xux-xux
hum-hum
Language
Laughter
Kissing
Crying
English
ha ha
mwa
boo hoo
Mirad
hihi
mwa-mwa
huhu
Language
Balloon bursting
Canon, gunfire, machine gun
Crash
Door or floor creaking
Engine back-firing
Knocking
Dull strike
Falling strike
Sharp strike
Wet strike
Crunching, cracking (of sticks, bones, etc.)
English
pop
kaboom, pow, ra-ta-tat
wham, bang
bam, crash
put-put
knock knock, tap tap, bang bang, rap
bump, thud, thump
plop, splat, thunk
clang, clink, clank, clunk, chink, dink, tink, plink, ding, ping, conk
splash, splish, splosh, splat
crunch, crack
Mirad
pop-pop
bum-bum
krax-krax
bam-bam
pat-pat
bang-bang, tap-tap
bop-bop, dump-dump
plop-plop, slap-slap
cink-cink, tink-tink, konk-konk
splax=splax, splox-splox, splak-splak
krunc-krunc, krak-krak
Language
Camera shutter
Car engine revving
Car horn honking
Clock ticking
Door bell ringing
Keyboard striking
Telephone ringing
Siren wailing
Train whistling
English
click
vroom vroom
beep beep
tick tock
ding dong, bing bong
click clack
ring ring, ringaling
wee-woo, awooga
choo choo
Mirad
klik-klik
vrum-vrum
bip-bip
tik-tuk
din-don
klik-kluk
riin-riin
ninu-ninu
cu-cu
Language
Electricity flowing
Electric shock
Fire
Rain
Thunder
Steam hissing
Water dripping
Wind blowing
English
buzz
zap
crackle
pitter-patter
crack, kaboom, rumble
psss
drip drop, plink plonk
swish, whizz, wheeze, howl, sigh
Mirad
bzuu-bzuu
psiit-psiit
knit-knut
plip-plop
bum-bum
psii
plik plok
kxuu-kxuu , hwuu-hwuu
Animal noises are formed by replacing the final -t of an animal name to a form of -der , eg.:
kapet ....dog
kapeder ....to bark, to bow-wow fepet ....cat
fepeder ....to meow, to mew bopet ....cattle
bopeder ....to moo kapyot ....wolf
kapyoder ....to howl serpyet ....snake
serpyeder ....to hiss Here is a fuller list. If you replace the final der of the noise word with t , you'll get the animal that produces it.
afekpeder ....to bray, to hee-haw akorpelder ....to chirp akpyader ....to squawk, to screech alcerpoder ....to bellow anpiader ....to quack, to honk anpiyeder ....to croak, to rivet ansanpiader ....to honk appelader ....to buzz, do drone, to thrum apwader ....to cockadoodledoo, to crow bopeder ....to beloow, to low, to moo bradepiider ....to creak bubopoder ....to snort cerpoyder ....to bleat cihempelder ....to chirp dipelader ....to buzz ekpeder ....to hinny, to neigh, to whinny, to sneer elpoder ....to trumpet epleder ....to wail famarpoder ....to shriek fepeder ....to meow, to mew, to purr fepyoder ....to growl fumuspoder ....to dook gafapader ....to crow gafapayder ....to cluck gafapaytuder ....to cheep gepiader ....to cry gipiader ....to quack hirpaspader ....to squall, to squeal kampoder ....to hum mefapader ....to gobble stripyader ....to hoot urpyoder ....to growl, to roar yopyeder ....to croak
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